Antichrist
IFC Films | Release Date: October 23, 2009 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
49
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Mixed or average reviews based on 34 Critic Reviews
Positive:
13
Mixed:
10
Negative:
11
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33
Christian Science MonitorPeter Rainer
Allegorical in the worst ways, Antichrist is about as profound as a slasher movie. Read full review
30
VarietyTodd McCarthy
Lars von Trier cuts a big fat art-film fart with Antichrist. As if deliberately courting critical abuse, the Danish bad boy densely packs this theological-psychological horror opus with grotesque, self-consciously provocative images. Read full review
30
The New York TimesA.O. Scott
The scandal of Antichrist is not that it is grisly or upsetting but that it is so ponderous, so conceptually thin and so dull. Read full review
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New York Magazine (Vulture)David Edelstein
Von Trier has said he wanted to make a genre horror picture, but he couldn’t even come up with a decent metaphor: The climax is out of a Grade C hack-’em-up with people chasing each other through the woods with axes and knives. Read full review
25
USA TodayClaudia Puig
Antichrist is probably the most disturbing, bleak and self-indulgent film ever made. Read full review
25
Philadelphia InquirerSteven Rea
I'm ripping up my Lars Von Trier fan club card. Read full review
20
Time OutJoshua Rothkopf
The new movie is a joke, a toxic cocktail of banal psychobabble, laughably arty slo-mo flourishes and unmotivated sexual violence that only brain-in-jar types could take as a serious statement. Read full review
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New York Daily NewsJoe Neumaier
Von Trier ("Breaking the Waves," "Dogville") has no barriers, which absolutely can be a good thing. Here, though, his uninhibited nature is an omen of the pretentious butchery to come. Read full review
20
Los Angeles TimesBetsy Sharkey
Female sexuality has evolved into pure evil here with Von Trier looking ever so much like the Marquis de Sade of filmmaking. Read full review
10
Film ThreatMatthew Sorrento
If only von Trier could work beyond the poster art concept. Antichrist stubbornly fails as a gothic nightmare and meanders as a misanthropic two-character drama. Read full review
10
SlateDana Stevens
The last 20 minutes are horrifically violent, relentlessly claustrophobic, and irredeemably pointless. Von Trier has us on the hot seat, and he's going to walk us through his most primitive sexual nightmares--not because they'll bring us to a greater understanding of madness or love or grief, but just because he bloody well feels like it. Read full review
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